Apple A13

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Apple A13 Bionic
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General information
LaunchedSeptember 10, 2019
Designed by Apple Inc.
Common manufacturer
Max. CPU clock rate to 2.65 GHz 
Cache
L2 cache8 MB (performance cores)
4 MB (efficient cores)
Last level cache16 MB (system cache)
Architecture and classification
ApplicationMobile
Technology node 7 nm+ (N7P)
Microarchitecture "Lightning" and "Thunder"
Instruction set A64 ARMv8.4-A [1]
Physical specifications
Transistors
  • 8.5 billion
Cores
GPU Apple-designed 4 core
Products, models, variants
Variant
History
Predecessors Apple A12 Bionic (iPhone)
Apple A12X/A12Z Bionic (iPad)
Successor Apple A14 Bionic

The Apple A13 Bionic is a 64-bit ARM-based system on a chip (SoC), designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series. [2] It appears in the iPhone 11, 11 Pro/Pro Max, the 9th generation iPad, [3] the iPhone SE (2nd generation) [4] and the Studio Display. [5] Apple states that the two high performance cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power consumption than the Apple A12's, and the four high efficiency cores are 20% faster with 30% lower power consumption than the A12's. [6]

Contents

Design

The Apple A13 Bionic features an Apple-designed 64-bit six-core CPU implementing ARMv8.4-A [1] ISA, with two high-performance cores running at 2.65 GHz [7] called Lightning and four energy-efficient cores called Thunder. The Lightning cores feature machine learning accelerators called AMX blocks. Apple claims the AMX blocks are six times faster at matrix multiplication than the Apple A12's Vortex cores. The AMX blocks are capable of up to one trillion single-precision operations per second. [7] The Lightning cores have access to 8 MB pL2 and the Thunder cores share 4 MB L2. The SLC is 16 MB. [8]

The A13 integrates an Apple-designed four-core graphics processing unit (GPU) with 20% faster graphics performance and 40% lower power consumption than the A12's. Apple claims their A13's eight-core Neural Engine dedicated neural network hardware is 20% faster and consumes 15% less power than the A12's. [3] [7] [9]

It is manufactured by TSMC on their 2nd generation 7 nm N7P (not to be confused with '7 nm+' or 'N7+'), [10] and contains 8.5 billion transistors. [11] [12]

The A13 has video codec encoding support for HEVC and H.264. It has decoding support for HEVC, H.264, MPEG‑4 Part 2, and Motion JPEG. [13]

Die block comparison (mm²) [14]
SoCA13 (7 nm enhanced)A12 (7 nm)
Process nodeTSMC N7PTSMC N7
Total die98.4883.27
Big core2.612.07
Small core0.580.43
CPU complex (incl. cores)13.4711.16
GPU core3.253.23
GPU total15.2814.88
NPU4.645.79

Products that include the Apple A13 Bionic

Apple A13 SoC on iPhone 11 (upper) main logic board A13 APL1W85 iPhone11 mlb 820-01523-A.jpg
Apple A13 SoC on iPhone 11 (upper) main logic board

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